English Colonies & Economy
What was the first English colony in America? What year?
Jamestown, Virginia; 1607
How many regions were the 13 colonies divided into?
What are four regions?
What trade system brought enslaved people from Africa to the Americas?
What is the Triangular Trade?
What was the main issue between Britain and the colonies before the Revolution?
Who had authority and control.
What treaty formally ended the American Revolution in 1783?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Why did England want colonies in America?
To help England get money and resources.
Name one of the four regions of the 13 colonies.
What is Chesapeake, Lower South, Middle Atlantic, or New England?
What type of slavery treated people as property that could be bought and sold?
What is chattel slavery?
What phrase describes taxing colonists without giving them representation in Parliament?
Taxation without representation.
What was the first system of government created by the states?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What crop was very important in the Chesapeake colonies?
What is tobacco?
Who lived in America before the English colonists arrived?
Who are Native Americans?
What does it mean when slavery is inherited through the mother?
Children of enslaved women were also enslaved.
What rights did colonists believe were being violated, such as trial by jury and free speech?
The Rights of Englishmen.
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
The national government couldn’t raise money or enforce laws.
Which colony region grew rice and used many enslaved workers?
What is the Lower South?
Name one group of people who moved to the colonies from other countries.
Who are the English, Scots-Irish, or Germans?
Why did slavery grow in the Chesapeake and Lower South?
Because tobacco and rice were labor-intensive crops.
What document announced that the colonies were breaking away from Britain in 1776?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What document created a federal system in 1789?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
What was the trade system called that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
What is the Triangular Trade?
What do we call the first people who were born in the colonies?
Who are the “Old Stock”?
In what year did enslaved Africans first arrive in English North America?
What is 1619?
Why do historians say Britain “lost” the Revolution rather than America “winning”?
Britain gave up the colonies to protect trade and reduce costs.
What do historians call the attempt to create a government run by the people?
The Republican Experiment.